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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Heh.

Sometime ago I stumbled across a "Trunk Monkey" video. The video -- part of a series -- involved a chimpanzee living in the trunk of your car. When you had certain problems, you pushed a button, and the Trunk Monkey solved the problems.The video involving the car thief almost caused me to drown in Dr. Pepper.The full series of Trunk Monkey videos can be found here. Be forewarned that the site has a picture gallery in which the occasional young lady in a bikini and a Trunk Money doll will show up. Personally, I'm all in favour of young ladies in bikinis, but your boss and/or Human Resources Department may not see things my way.Anyhoo, I had filed Trunk Monkeys away as an amusement, until today, when I discovered that our troopies have apparently been referring to the rear gunner in gun trucks and hard-backed HMMWVs as the "Trunk Monkey".And there are even (unofficial) Trunk Monkey Patches.Oh, I'm going to have to get one of those.LawDog

15 comments:

I'll be getting the Trunk Monkey chaperone edition for my daughters as they get older and start dating. Although I think the shotgun would be a little messy, I think some frangible rounds should take care of that.

Aha! That was the first time I'd ever heard of that. But now I understand why the Wyoming Department of Transportation has been running TV commercials now for several months where a "trunk trooper" (Wyo Highway Patrol Officers) are released to stop idiots from driving drunk or not wearing their seatbelts.

I assume the trunk monkey came first, and Wy DOT is stealing its limelight. Are any other states running "trunk trooper" TV ad campaigns?

I actually have flying trunk monkeys under the back cover of my Avalanche (just ask the MPs at the local airbase), courtesy of my sister, who, I'm told, recently had a house fall on her. I have been a fan of the Trunk Monkeys for quite a while.